The rush of Comic-Con slows to a trickle, with some of the late news including a trailer for the upcoming video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, which features an invasion of symbiotes and the apparent Venom-ification of Wolverine.
Watch below.
DC’s not alone in its efforts to branch into direct-to-DVD animation, and Marvel showed off a preview of its next project at Comic-Con.
That would be Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
Warner Bros. wasn’t all about Watchmen at San Diego on Friday. They also showed off the trailer to the upcoming The Brave and the Bold animated series.
It’s a pretty funky cartoon, from appearances, with a score that harks back to the Adam West days. Watch it below.
Boom! Studios has announced they’ll be publishing comic book adaptations of Pixar cartoon properties, with the first announced being an Incredibles project.
The news comes as an early announcement from Comic-Con International, which is just getting underway. Boom EiC Mark Waid will be writing the Incredibles
"Today, American comic books are aimed primarily at an older readership. Comics produced for an upcoming generation of readers are scarce – and BOOM! Studios aims to do something about that," said Waid. "There will be comics for kids again!"
To commemorate this historic partnership, BOOM! will be releasing a special preview book featuring sneak previews of upcoming projects using the characters from TOY STORY
According to the release, these won’t be straight adaptations, but rather all-new stories set in the world of various Pixar films.
Boom also is going to be doing a Muppets book, Waid told CBR.
It was also announced Wednesday night that Waid will be writing "The Muppet Show." Given the Muppets’ long and varied history in television and film, CBR asked Waid about the particular form this series would take. He was able to reveal that the first thing to appear would be a four-issue miniseries, but future series are "something that’s more in flux." "We’re talking about doing a couple one-shots that could be collected into a trade paperback, we’re talking about doing series that are based on ‘The Muppet Show
After yesterday’s rush of the possibly accidental early release of the first Watchmen trailer — followed by a flurry of pirated trailers — we finally have two official ways to legally watch the trailer. Whew.
As our own Rick Marshall told you yesterday, Empire Online has the video on its Web site, which you can view right here.
Additionally, the Apple movie trailer site has the same video, and for me it was loading quite a bit faster this morning than Empire’s version.
You can also check out some stills from the trailer right here at ComicMix.
Meanwhile, over at Slashfilm there’s a bevy of Watchmen news, including insights from director Zack Snyder about the trailer. One cool note is how he had to digitally change a gun to a walkie-talkie, an homage to E.T.
They also have the cover to the Watchmen Entertainment Weekly, which you can see above.
What did you think of the trailer?
When the Watchmen movie trailer hit the ‘Tubes today, word traveled pretty quickly. Of course, so did the orders to take it down on various sites, making it difficult for some fans to find out what all the fuss was about. To that end, here’s a collection of screenshots from various scenes that appeared during the trailer, so you can talk amongst yourselves about this first glimpse at the much-anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel.
Here are a few images to whet your appetite, presented in order of their appearance in the trailer, but be sure to view the full gallery after the jump:
The headline pretty much says it all, as the trailer for the much-anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen was released on Empire Online today. The Empire Online video is down, but the trailer has found its way to YouTube, of course. (As various verisons get posted and taken down, I’ll try to keep this thread updated with any that are still available. Be sure to check out our Watchmen trailer image gallery, too!)
(via a tip from UglyHill)
UPDATE: Well, you knew that was bound to happen. The YouTube video has been taken down, and the Empire Online page remains in a state of 404 Error. Here’s hoping you were able to catch the trailer while it was floating around — it was impressive, to say the least.
UPDATE: Thanks to another astute ComicMix fan, we’ve tracked down the trailer elsewhere on the ‘Tubes and embedded it after the jump. (Thanks, RJ, Jr.!)
At New York’s E3 video game expo, trailer’s have debuted for a couple big upcoming comic book video games, with the more notable being DC’s huge DC Universe Online game. Marvel also has Ultimate Alliance 2 in the works, though its preview was much shorter.
See the trailer below.
The first trailer for the upcoming Iron Man: Armored Adventures cartoon is now online. The show, which appears to be somewhere between Ultimate Iron Man and the Iron Man movie, will show up on Nicktoons next year.
Half of the four-day schedule for San Diego’s Comic-Con International 2008 is up and running.
Here’s Thursday. Here’s Sunday.
Obviously, much cool stuff to choose from. Too much cool stuff, in fact. Makes me almost not sad that I won’t make it this year (watch out 2009!).
While we’re on the subject, Variety has a retrospective of the early days of Comic-Con, when film people had little idea how to relate to comics fans.
Although it was more than 30 years ago, for example, I keenly recall a preview of the 1978 feature "Superman
Gradually, the studios started to wise up, hiring publicists specifically trained to handle Comic-Con’s savvy but easily riled audience. When Ridley Scott’s space-horror film "Alien
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